been softened by obama's support for the arab spring or his military withdrawal from iraq few american presidents have lost a good standing with the arab world as quickly and as significantly as a bomber for him now to a new trust in america he'll have to do more than just promise a new beginning in a cairo speech policy r.t. tel aviv. and r.t. is coming to you live from moscow with a former cia officer john kiriakou he's been sentenced to two and a half years behind bars for leaking classified intelligence his supporters of called for a sentence to be reduced saying the real reason for his punishment was because he went public on washington's torture tactics artie's guy nature kind of reports. the cia veteran the former chief of counterterrorism operations in pakistan john kiriakou will spend thirty months in prison for leaking the identity of an agent but before he was prosecuted mr kitty affleck had been actively speaking out against torture and now he and his supporters believe that he was prosecuted for coming clean over torture practices in the cia it started with an investigatio